BTVI
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Television broadcasting |
| Predecessor | UTVi, Bloomberg UTV, Bloomberg TV India |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Defunct | 2019 |
| Fate | Ceased broadcasting |
| Headquarters | India |
Area served | India |
| Products | Business news channel |
Business Television India (BTVI), previously known as Bloomberg TV India, Bloomberg UTV, and UTVi, operated as a 24-hour English news channel in India specializing in business and financial reporting.
History
UTVi was introduced by UTV in April 2008 and featured a content partnership with ABC News through Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific). In the same year, Bloomberg L.P. acquired a shareholding. By late 2009, following a collaboration between UTV and Bloomberg for programming, UTVi was rebranded as Bloomberg UTV. In 2012, Reliance Group acquired UTV's stake, leading to another name change to Bloomberg TV India.
The channel adopted the BTVI brand on 1 August 2016 after Business Broadcast News terminated its licensing deal with Bloomberg L.P., thus ending their seven-year collaboration.
BTVI halted its broadcasting activities on 31 August 2019 without providing any official reason. Before shutting down, it had established itself as India's second-largest business news channel after CNBC TV18. The transmission officially stopped in September 2019.